Maple Lake is a leading provider of merchandise, assortment, allocation and optimization solutions to retail organizations across the U.S., Canada, UK and Australia. The portfolio of solutions provides retailers with fast, accurate and intelligent solutions to planning and distributing inventory efficiently and economically to increase sales, reduce markdowns and improve the overall profitability of the organization.

By enabling retailers to utilize the industry best practice approaches to inventory planning and management, and still providing the freedom to the customer to design their own process and approaches, Maple Lake's solutions offer the best of both worlds. The applications are extremely flexible in the way businesses can be analyzed and simulations produced.

The applications are also designed to be changed and amended easily, including the owning business logic and calculation methods, controlling the definition of key business metrics, as well as an extremely powerful automation feature for commonly executed processes to avoid unnecessary repetition. Assortments and allocations are driven with stores and customers in mind, by providing teams with high-level objectives that maximize local demand preferences. Critically, the solutions provide an easy mechanism for incorporating recommendations derived from intelligent analytics in a simple, friendly user interface.

Maple Lake's customers can also benefit from the experienced consulting and applications team, who use the combination of their direct retail knowledge and their experiences of implementing planning solutions in a wide variety of retail environments. The end result is an easy to use suite of planning, assortment, allocation and optimization solutions that can deliver a more intelligent and more efficient customer-focused inventory strategy.